Background: Hospitalization provides an opportunity to provide patients who use tobacco with evidence-based treatment for cessation, including nicotine replacement therapy, motivational interviewing, and pharmacotherapy. However, this benefit is often lost without appropriate transitions in care to outpatient cessation resources. We have found that inpatient tobacco cessation interventions at our 600-bed urban academic medical center do […]

Case Presentation: A 54‐year‐old African American woman with a history of hypertension and intravenous drug abuse presented to the emergency room with a 2‐month history of lower back pain and new onset right lower leg radicular pain and paresthesias. The patient had an emergent lumbosacral MRI revealing inflammatory changes at L4–L5 and L5–S1 worrisome for […]

Case Presentation: 45 year old male with history of prediabetes presented with complaint of postprandial abdominal pain and nausea. Patient was hospitalized a week prior for similar complaint and had upper endoscopy done which was nondiagnostic. Upon admission, abdominal exam was unremarkable. CT Abdomen and Pelvis with contrast was nondiagnostic. Labs were significant for hemoglobin […]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with a medical history of nicotine dependence, gastroesophageal disease (GERD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) emphysema sub-type presented to the outpatient clinic for the evaluation of cough and shortness of breath. Cough was said to be productive of light-yellow sputum and he denied any associated fevers or chest pain. […]